Hi Alepou ki' ho Korakas

Abstract

This is one of four spiral-bound 24-page booklets from a series of 8 for which I am guessing a year of publication of about 1950. In the first half, left-hand pages feature monochrome illustrations; on the right are full-page illustrations. The second half reverses the pattern. The fox here stands regularly on two legs in human fashion; she goes to market like a proper woman, with hat, skirt, basket, and handbag. In the meantime, her children are acting just as humanly at home! At the market, a crow seizes a wedge of cheese. Later, the fox sings and then the crow sings. She then laughs at him and strides home. The last image has the crow weeping among other animals. Our collection has several of a set of eighteen pamphlets from the same publisher, listed there as Agkyra, apparently published in 1975 and reprinted in 1979. Texts may be the same, but the art appears to be different, though perhaps by the same artist.